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Renovation inspiration
With Italy seemingly awash with gorgeous, stone-built homes in need of a little TLC, it feels like these days you’re never more than 10 feet from an American with a measuring tape.
Massachusetts couple Doug and Leah Johnson renovated a 14th-century apartment in the town of Vasanello in Lazio that they bought for less than $14,000. “The amazing thing in Italy is that they really preserve old buildings,” says Doug. “It’s not easy to knock down an important structure.”
And in the little town of Irsina in the southern Basilicata region, more than 300 non-Italians from North America and across Europe, have helped revived this once dying community by taking over dilapidated properties.
What lies beneath
A Spanish woman spent 500 days alone in a cave so you don’t have to. Beatriz Flamini said of the experiment, which was conducted 230 feet (70 meters) underground and monitored by scientists, “It’s not that the time passes quickly or more slowly, simply that it doesn’t pass.
